Tamika Mallory's disqualifying embrace of Louis Farrakhan: She can't lead the Women's March and back a virulent anti-Semite

Tamika Mallory, right, co-chair of the Women's March on Washington, talks during an interview with fellow co-chairs Carmen Perez, left, and Linda Sarsour. (Mark Lennihan/AP)

Tamika Mallory, an activist who serves as national co-chair of the Women's March, is an apologist for the ragingly anti-Semitic, anti-white Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan.

Strike that. She's not an apologist, she's an enthusiast. And that must disqualify her from being a leader of a broad movement seeking positive change.

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On Instagram last year, Mallory posted a photo of herself alongside Farrakhan calling him the "GOAT," which means "greatest of all time."

And late last month, Mallory was a prominent participant as Farrakhan stood before an audience and spun his usual web of hate smears.

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The Jews, he proclaimed, are "responsible for all of this filth and degenerate behavior that Hollywood is putting out turning men into women and women into men."

"White folks are going down," he said. "Farrakhan," he said, referring to himself in the third person, "has pulled the cover off the eyes of the Satanic Jew and I'm here to say your time is up, your world is through. You good Jews better separate because the satanic ones will take you to hell with them because that's where they are headed."

Lest you need a quick refresher, Farrakhan has also over the years said, "It is now becoming apparent that there were many Israelis and Zionist Jews in key roles in the 9/11 attacks."

And: "The Jews have been so bad at politics they lost half their population in the Holocaust."

And: "Hitler was a very great man."

He has called white people a race of "devils." He has called black men like Julian Bond and the NAACP "slaves." He has condemned homosexuality. He has called it the duty of men to keep their wives covered.

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But back to that organization purporting to speak for female empowerment. It is bad enough that Mallory, along with co-leaders Linda Sarsour and Carmen Perez, were there when Farrakhan let loose his latest hate.

It is far worse that they refused to issue a swift, clear and categorical condemnation of what they heard.

Tuesday, weeks into the backlash, the Women's March finally found the courage to state that Farrakhan's "statements about Jewish, queer and trans people" are "not aligned with" its unity principles.

Mallory can't bring herself to say as much. Wednesday, in a statement claiming to have "heard the pain and concerns of my LGBTQAI siblings, my Jewish Friends and Black women," she mustered not a word of condemnation for Farrakhan's vile ideology.

She added that she has been attending the Nation of Islam Saviours' Day event for more than 30 years, as though it is a mitigating factor. Hardly: It only proves she knew exactly the climate into which she walked.

If the Women's March continues to count her as a leader, the organization deserves to fail.